| Most people refer to rap as “ a
noise that black people make”. Well it is not. Rap is defined as signifying,
testifying, and shining of the titanic. Rap started in the south bronx section
of New York.(Davey D. 7) Most of the rap that is heard today draws its rots from
the jamacian art form known as toasting.(Davey D. 4)
Another definitoin of
rap which is most known, is saying rhymes to the beat of music. The main musical
insturnments used in a rap song are, keyboards, turntables, drums, and musical
bass.(busboy.com) The original rap started back in the 1940’s with Cal Calloway.
He is known for his signature “Hi-de-hi-de-hi-de-ho” which was a chant from the
“ Minnie Moocher” In the 1940\'s, Calloway used a call and response format with
his audience, which is one of the foundations of rap. (busboy.com)
In the
early 1800’s, a new form of a music player came out, it was called the sampler.
A sampler is an electronic device which can precisely replicate an existing
sound or track of music. Today, we call this kind of device a drum machiene.
Rappers use this machine to duplicate music tracks so that they don’t have to
have someone doing it for them all the time. This tool became verry useful in
the music industry, today, almost all of the bands that you see in concert are
using a drum machine, or a sampler.(busboy.com)
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